Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first shot, although a statement issued by the Free State Government said that only " blank " ammunition was used. Friends tried to rescue their leader. He was pulled from the platform and carried?into the arms of the troops, who arrested him on the charge of arson and murder...
...note Charges that the Bulgarian authorities joined the White Russians living in Bulgaria in instituting a regular system of persecution against the mission. Torture, murder, beatings, imprisonment, confiscation are cited in numerous cases. The Bulgarian Government is accused of conducting a "scandalous campaign " against the mission by insisting (apparently without good cause) that "many documents of an incriminating nature had been in its offices...
...labyrinthine plot centers about the murder of a Bootlegger King. His daughter's fiancé is accused; suspicion shifts suddenly to the daughter herself. Finally the winds of evidence blow up from a totally different quarter and point the weathercock of circumstance toward the least expected actor. Although the solution is fairly ingenious it is not worth waiting for through two Plundering hours of gunplay, tears and tired old jokes...
Frankfurt-am-Main was the scene of violent Communist rioting, which resulted in the brutal murder of Dr. Haas, Federal District Attorney. Many people were wounded...
Shortly after the murder of Pancho Villa by his enemies, the New York American published a picture of him lying dead, stretched out on a bed in a Parral hospital. There was no trace of malignancy on his features as he lay there, stricken and inanimate. Not many newspapers equal the American in the spirit of enterprise...